yeah

Dear leftist in San Francisco, you have a good option. Saikat Chakrabarti. Don't let the nation down. If the people that made Trump, Gulliani, Bloomberg, & Cuomo can deliver, so can you.

But but but tv talking head man said name with more than 3 syllable is scarey jihad?????
- Not gonna lie, I also had to look his name up. I've known about him for almost a decade, and I didn't know how to spell his name. I too believe that it's a racism card that has to be broken, but if a Muslim socialist who's called a communist can do it, I think he might be able to as well. I even think he's a better option than Mamdani.
As a San Franciscan, I am telling everyone about saikat and how he is the best choice. But I think there are Democrats here that care more about low taxes and niche identity politics, like getting trans kids in sports, more than getting those same kids access to health care, housing, and food. SF is not an easy place for an economic leftist to get elected.
- It sounds like Saikat Chakrabarti would be wise to come out in support of trans rights, if he hasn't already.
This exact thing needs to be repeated everywhere. Well said.

I thought she was running for her mom's seat but I'm glad she's not. If she wants to run for local to prove herself then go for it. Lots of people follow in parents footsteps and it makes sense.

That said, I fully support progressive Saikat Chakrabarti running for Pelosi's House seat (against Wiener who is an AIPAC candidate...)

Yeah California “STATE SENATE”
It’s very easy to get confused about. But this is not a federal position it’s internal to California’s state government. I still think it’s a pretty big deal, not quite what I’d call a “local” position. But she’s not inheriting her mother’s job.
I can't wait to follow in my parents footsteps at the tender age of 59. Holy fuck, this country is cooked.
- Meh Adelita Grijalva is 55 and just did the same.
  Geriatrics are a problem though, I get it.

FFS! Just take your vast troves of unethically sourced riches and go away, Pelosis!

(After said riches are properly taxed, of course)

Fucking dynasties. Might as well be kings or royalty handing down positions by primogeniture.

Well the US oligarchy is trying to recreate feudalism for the modern age. So you're not far off.

Tbf, primaries are carefully orchestrated by elites of both parties to make sure only their preferred factions dominate the primary ballots. Signing up to register in Republican and Democratic parties are intentionally made to be hard.
- I still remember when Bernie did his first run and suddenly a bunch of people had to vote provisional. It's almost as if the elections are rigged on both sides, with only a state's major opposing political party being caught.
- The crowing from centrists that leftists lose elections that centrists have complete control over is circular reasoning.
  It's fair to think that centrists might have more support. But if someone believes DNC gives a fair shake to progressives, they're dangerously naive.
- Yeah. The primaries are a joke. It's all orchestrated to make us think we have a choice when we vote.

She probably saw how easy it is for her mom to make money by insider trading and wants some of that green herself.

Now it makes sense why she is finally retiring

The Democrats, left? As someone not living in the US, to me, Democrats are just a light right wing party. At best they might be considered centrists, but left?! Sorry for your "choices".

FPTP means de facto 2 party system.
The democraric party is really just an uneasy coalition between many different parties in a big trench coat labeled "Democratic Party", pragmatic leftists are usually in the Democraric party, but not all Democrats are on the "left".
- It's crazy that the Republicans are like the one far right party in most European countries and Democrats are like all other parties combined.
Yuuuuup. It's brutal over here.

The grift must continue!!!... it's a family tradition now

No nepotism happening here.

Nepobaby politicians, yeah the Kennedy family has fucked us enough we don't need more of the same shit.

Wait NVM she's not running for her mom's seat, she's running for state senate. I generally don't think family dynasty politics are a good thing, but I also don't know anything about her. I guess that's not quite as infuriating as it could be?

Christine Pelosi passes on bid for retiring mother’s House seat

It is important people know that before she announced she was stepping down, Pelosi was already being challenged by a progressive who has proven he won't just go along with mainstream media spin.

I can't vote for him, but California, this seems like it could be your chance to take a step towards actually getting the control of your state out of the hands of big business "progressives" and "liberals."

AOC's former campaign manager who made CNN so uncomfortable by refusing to drop the subject and asking them to just please acknowledge reality. The host chuckled nervously and cut to a commercial break. Seems like an obvious choice.

CNN Cuts Off Pelosi Primary Challenger’s Discussion of NSPM-7

Saikat Chakrabarti, the progressive organizer who is challenging US Rep. Nancy Pelosi for the House seat she has held since 1987, was met with stone-faced stares and laughter on CNN when he spoke during a panel discussion Monday about the Trump administration national security memo that one journalist said amounts to a “declaration of war” on the president’s political opponents.

“Do you think that’s okay?” he asked the other panelists. “Can you put two and two together about what’s going on here?”

None of the other guests responded, and Seat looked blankly at Chakrabarti before Sidner said the show was going to a commercial break.

“We will answer that question, coming up,” Sidner said, laughing. “We’re going to leave it there for that conversation.”

She has experience in govt, but has never been elected to any office. I hope the voters primary her for a slightly more experienced candidate.

you guys are in this mess because of "experienced candidates". Experienced doesn't mean good.
- you guys are in this mess because of "experienced candidates". Experienced doesn't mean good.
  So much for lesser evil!

And just when I thought that bitch would die, here comes another establishment crook to prevent progress of promising folks like Jasmine and AOC. Republicans are disgusting, but dems are almost as bad. Another Pelosi? Yuck!

I'm on your side, but let's not say bitch. There are better words to describe your disdain with Nancy Pelosi.
- In fact, let's just not say anything if you dont have anything nice to say at all. After all, thats how we beat Trump.
  /s
- You know what's funny? The people who downvoted you for this comment are the same exact people who turn around and complain about misogyny in society.

Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Godfree Roberts

From here

Too young come back in 40 years

Was she the one puppeteering Dianne Feinstein's remains?

Weekend at Feinsteins. Someone should ask her if she felt ok pushing that old hag to mumble grievances at school children.

Oh. That's why her mom is stepping down. OK.

As a Calfironian, abso-fucking-lutely not. Shit which district?

11th, basically San Francisco and adjacent islands.

The way he’s holding that cigarette.

I wonder if they got Freaky Friday’d

If so they been doing it for three generations.

For a 100 year career run with next gen rich people healthcare enriching the family for generations to come.

And you know what? Those same leftists will elect her, defend her, and then complain about the lack of progress.

I think you mean liberals. It should be crystal clear by now that liberals were never leftists.
- Fair point, leftist just complain and day dream about mythical revolutions on the internet, liberals actually go out and vote.

No